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Pound mss. V, 1948-1972

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Title
Pound mss. V, 1948-1972

Collection No.
LMC 1871

Extent
2,150 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Pound mss. V, 1948-1972, consist primarily of the London business files of A.V. Moore relating to royalties, publications, and permissions of Ezra Pound.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic and one of the leaders of the early modernist movement. Born in Idaho, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach briefly at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before traveling overseas and living in London, Paris, and Italy, then returning to the States in 1945. Pound went back to Italy in 1958 and died in Venice in 1972.

Arrangement

Collection is organized chronologically in a single series.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence and financial records.

Related Material

See Pound mss., Pound mss. II, Pound mss. III, Pound mss. IV, Pound mss. VI, Pound mss. VII,, also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Purchase. J. Howard Woolmer, Rare Books, Revere, Pennsylvania. 1991
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Pound mss. V., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing Information
Processed by staff.
Box 1 1947 and 1950 
1949-1950 
1950 
1951-1953 
1953-1954 
1954-1960 
1954[?] 

[EP and DP letters]

1954 
1955-1956 
1955 
1956 
1956-1957 
1957-1960 
1958 

[5 folders]

1958-1960 
1959 

[EP and DP letters]

1959-1960 

[2 folders]

1959-1966  

[royalty statements]

1960 

[6 folders]

"The Case of Ezra Pound," script, 1960 
1961 

(4 folders)

1961-1964 
Gallup AVM 1962 
1962-1965 
1963 

(2 folders)

1963-1966 
1964 

(3 folders)

1965 

(4 folders)

1965-1967 
1966-1967 
1965-1968 
1966 
1966-1967 

(4 folders)

1966-1972 
1967 
1967-1968 
1967-1972 
1968 
1969 
1970 
Box 2 1954-1955 
1956, Jan.-Apr. 
1956, May-Dec. 
1957, Jan.-June 
1957, July-Dec. 
1958, Jan.-July 
1958, Aug.-Dec. 
1959, Jan.-June 
1959, July-Dec. 
1960, Jan.-Mar. 
1960, Apr.-June 
1960, July-Dec. 
1961, Jan.-Apr. 
1961, May-July 
1961, Aug.-Dec. 
1962, Jan.-May 
1962, June-Sept. 
1962, Oct.-Dec. 
1963, Jan.-Apr. 
1963, May-July 
1963, Aug.-Dec. 
1964, Jan.-May 
1964, June-Dec. 
1965, Jan.-May 
1965, June-Dec. 
1966-1967 
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